ENVIRONMENT

Raphium pectinatum was last seen 150 years ago in Surrey

Reunion's Piton de la Fournaise volcano has been erupting since February.

Greenpeace protesters dangling from a bridge in Portland, failed to prevent the Fennica from passing through to the Arctic.

Baby two-toed sloth being hand reared at ZSL London Zoo after mother stopped producing milk.

Simon Dominguez was forced to abandon his record bid to swim from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands.

200,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Obama administration to extradite Palmer to Zimbabwe.

Ocean acts as a major carbon sink, sucking up CO2 and preventing greater climate change.

Golden jackals from East Africa and Eurasia are two different species, scientists discover.

The melting of a giant prehistoric ice sheet is causing the land to sink.

Big game hunting is a multi-million dollar industry across Africa.

A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.

Sad facts about the species being pushed to extinction

A female giant panda called Jia Jia broke the Guinness World Record for the oldest panda ever in captivity

Magnetic field record from minerals from Iron Age settlement discovered in South Africa.

The animals are the descendants of a small number of wallabies that escaped a nearby zoo in the 1970s.

However, more than 90% of Europeans, Japanese and North Americans are aware of it.

Risk of compound coastal flooding events increased significantly over past century for many coastal US cities.

Daily Overview publishes an image of the Earth where human activity has shaped the landscape every day.

Bank of America, General Motors, Cargill, Wal-Mart Stores, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo will also contribute.

The new study uses a feedback loop in oceans to support the claim.

Previously it was humans that were thought to be responsible for the demise of the giant ice-age animals.

The study concludes snakes evolved from burrowing lizards.

James Cook varsity study shows that long durations under water affected the embryos.

A major quake on the Hayward Fault is overdue by seven years.

IBTimes UK looks at a process called fasciation that is causing flowers to mutate abnormally

'Some species will be pushed further and further north.'

Ioane Teitiota says the rising sea levels in Kiribati destroyed his crops and contaminated his water.

Climate secretary Amber Rudd said that her priorities are lower bills for UK families and businesses

There would be no difference in the carbon age of a present day object and a 1000-year-old one.